Gothic Ivories Project | Panel (possibly a pax), 1 register, 3 arches across (plaquette; frise d'arcatures; baiser de paix) (Front)

Panel (possibly a pax), 1 register, 3 arches across (plaquette; frise d'arcatures; baiser de paix) (Front)

Panel (possibly a pax), 1 register, 3 arches across (plaquette; frise d'arcatures; baiser de paix) (Front)

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Paris, Musée de Cluny-Musée national du Moyen Âge

Cl. 443

Ivory

Height: 122mm
Width: 81mm

Crucifixion; swooning Virgin supported by Holy Women; saint John the Evangelist and onlookers holding scrolls.
Pointed trefoils. Border of dentils.

Koechlin Number: 0600

Koechlin 1924: France, 2nd half of the 14th century.
Museum's opinion 2010: France (?), 2nd half of the 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Chamfered slot which seems to indicate that the panel was used as pax (a handle would have been set into the slot).

Object Condition
Missing: part of the background to the right of Christ's feet.

Provenance
Collection of Alexandre Du Sommerard: acquired for the museum in 1843.

Bibliography
E. Du Sommerard, Catalogue et description des antiquités et objets d'art exposés au musée de Cluny (Paris, 1883), no. 1104.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 222, 223; II, no. 600; III, pl. CIII.

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